Mesoscale shock structure in particulate composites

Kavli Affiliate: G. Ravichandran |Summary:Multiscale experiments in heterogeneous materials and the knowledge of their physics under shock compression are limited. This study examines the multiscale shock response of particulate composites comprised of soda-lime glass particles in a PMMA matrix using full-field high-speed digital image correlation (DIC) for the first time. Normal plate impact experiments, and […]


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Understanding binary phase separation towards Cu-C nanocrystalline-amorphous composites

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Jiajian Guan, Qin Jiang, Yue He, Xu Zhang, Bin Liao | Summary: The nanocrystalline-amorphous textures are commonly observed in the coatings synthesized by energetic deposition.This work reports a theoretical study towards binary Cu-C phase separation.By performing a MD simulation using the LAMMPS instead of classical PFK methodology, […]


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Soliton generation in AlGaAs microresonators at room temperature

Kavli Affiliate: Kerry J. Vahala | First 5 Authors: Lue Wu, Weiqiang Xie, Chao Xiang, Lin Chang, Yan Yu | Summary: Chip-integrated optical frequency combs are attractive optical sources in comb applications requiring high-repetition-rate, low power consumption, or compact size. Spontaneous soliton formation via Kerr parametric oscillation is a promising generation principle in these frequency […]


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Generating counterfactual explanations of tumor spatial proteomes to discover effective strategies for enhancing immune infiltration

Kavli Affiliate: Matt W. Thomson| Summary:The tumor microenvironment (TME) significantly impacts cancer prognosis due to its immune composition. While therapies for altering the immune composition, including immunotherapies, have shown exciting results for treating hematological cancers, they are less effective for immunologically-cold, solid tumors. Spatial omics technologies capture the spatial organization of the TME with unprecedented […]


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Photonic Elementary Cellular Automata for Simulation of Complex Phenomena

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Gordon H. Y. Li, Christian R. Leefmans, James Williams, Alireza Marandi, | Summary: Cellular automata are a class of computational models based on simple rules and algorithms that can simulate a wide range of complex phenomena. However, when using conventional computers, these ‘simple’ rules are only encapsulated […]


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DialogConv: A Lightweight Fully Convolutional Network for Multi-view Response Selection

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang | Summary: Current end-to-end retrieval-based dialogue systems are mainly based on Recurrent Neural Networks or Transformers with attention mechanisms. Although promising results have been achieved, these models often suffer from slow inference or huge number of parameters. […]


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Electro-optic transduction in silicon via GHz-frequency nanomechanics

Kavli Affiliate: Mohammad Mirhosseini | First 5 Authors: Han Zhao, Alkim Bozkurt, Mohammad Mirhosseini, , | Summary: Interfacing electronics with optical fiber networks is key to the long-distance transfer of classical and quantum information. Piezo-optomechanical transducers enable such interfaces by using GHz-frequency acoustic vibrations as mediators for converting microwave photons to optical photons via the […]


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Electro-optic transduction in silicon via GHz-frequency nanomechanics

Kavli Affiliate: Mohammad Mirhosseini | First 5 Authors: Han Zhao, Alkim Bozkurt, Mohammad Mirhosseini, , | Summary: Interfacing electronics with optical fiber networks is key to the long-distance transfer of classical and quantum information. Piezo-optomechanical transducers enable such interfaces by using GHz-frequency acoustic vibrations as mediators for converting microwave photons to optical photons via the […]


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Electro-optic transduction in silicon via GHz-frequency nanomechanics

Kavli Affiliate: Mohammad Mirhosseini | Summary:Interfacing electronics with optical fiber networks is key to the long-distance transfer of classical and quantum information. Piezo-optomechanical transducers enable such interfaces by using GHz-frequency acoustic vibrations as mediators for converting microwave photons to optical photons via the combination of optomechanical and piezoelectric interactions. However, despite successful demonstrations, efficient piezo-optomechanical […]


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